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World's richest, arguably most-powerful woman stops footing bill for celebrities' trips to Chicago.

In other, more interesting to this non-watcher news (though I will concede she's turned the talk show business on its head...she's sort of the Wal-Mart of talk shows, if you will? Like Wal-Mart, she offers a quality product for the most part, but she's killed all competition. Unlike Wal-Mart, however, that's not such a bad thing in her case.) Brian Rafferty and Shawn Paul Mazur have undertaken the task of reviving the supper club tradition by hosting a complete evening of dining and entertainment on the far west side at - fittingly enough - Juliet Supper Club. Their evening (tonight, actually) is humbly named KINGS and includes an after-work drinks/dinner portion from 7 to 9pm, and then a party portion from 9 to far-too-late-for-this-working-girl.

I believe the picture above depicts the dessert course.

In other equally-more-exciting-than-the-end-of-Oprah-before-the-beginning-of-the-new-more-monopolistic-Oprah news, DJs Rich King and Michael T. are spinning tonight as guests for Mandy Graves and Jools Palmer's BASSMENT at Kings Cross on the Bowery (next to Bowery Bar, in the former The Slide space.).

This busy busy holiday weekend, both BASSMENT guests will be hosting/spinning big parties - Rich out in Fire Island for SUMMERSNAXX BY THE SEA on Saturday night, and Mr. T. at OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS: THE NEW ROMANTICS at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday night...a party I'll also be hosting, FYF style (whatever that means). Despite it being a New Romantics party, Nowhere's River and I are tasked with hosting a Bear Lounge and we have been asked to deliver bears giving LOOKS, so...you've got your work cut out for you, hirsute brutes! Or else you've got your hair to cut...whichever?

Special note: Were you to decide you'd like to visit Mr. T. and Mr. King at BASSMENT tonight, you'd be in the East Village already and thereby have an ostensibly easier time rolling to nearby fun at GOOD TIMES with Josh Sparber at Eastern Bloc, and also COCK & SOUL (with Mona Foot and Gant Johnson and friends paying tribute to Bjork) at The Cock.

Also this Memorial Day weekend, Ladyfag adds a new Saturday party to her existing Friday night (CLUBBER DOWN DISCO) roster with WAHWEE at Drom (formerly known as Opaline?) on A and 6th (downstairs).

Remember Sunday Best at BKLYN Yard? Well it's - for all intents and purposes - back in the form of MISTER SUNDAY at the same location starting this Sunday. It's 1) near my house, 2) A bucolic and beautiful setting in an enclosed sort of farmyard on the Gowanus Canal (far enough away to avoid contamination!) and 3) pretty fucking amazing as far as outdoor dance parties (or any dance party, really?) go. Most of all for this opening day, though? Four Tet will guest DJ alongside residents Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter. Yay!

After 16 years somewhere in-between, Beige ends Tuesday.

I celebrated my birthday (maybe MY 30th?) there once, which makes me as fabulous as Andy Cohen.

This weekend, things get kray-kray...

Escandalo by Miguel Villalobos

It's finally warm and the weekend forecast promises sun, so there's bound to be some spring fever situations experienced by one and all. Aside from that? There's a shitload of stuff we here at FYF are pimping/doing/loving.

First, tonight My Spring Fling Turned Into My Summer Dream opens at splatterpool artspace in Greenpoint. Curated by J. Morrison, the show presents paired (but not necessarily coupled) pieces from many artists we consider FYF Friends (and hope they do, too!) including Geoff Chadsey, Erik Hanson, Richard Haines, Paul Mpagi Sepaya, Brian Kenny and Slava Mogutin. The show is meant to play "off the dualities of the seasons (Sexy Spring to Summer Fuck)" to which we say, I'll have both!

Later is Clubber Down Disco at the Chelsea Hotel of course...and then tomorrow I am the fortunate last-minute addition to WE HAVE COME TO TAKE YOUR JOBS, a special Saturday Sessions at PS1 curated by the one and only Viva Ruiz and featuring the premier of her telenovela, IMMIGRANTULA, as well as a live performance of their newest single by her and Desi Santiago's art house music project, Escandalo (this is the bit of which I'll be a part). You won't necessarily know it's me, but I'll be beating some sticks, for real yo. Admission is free with museum admission, but space is limited so PS1 is recommending getting there early for a wristband to get in for the performance. You should 'cuz I'm planning to be devastating.

Later that night, I'm guest-hosting the latest edition of XANADUDE at the Public Assembly Loft in Williamsburg. Always a good vibe and a great mix of people, plus good tunes with DJ Will Automagic and a force of nature from England, Dan Beaumont guesting along side residents Sean B. and Deputy. Come! It'll be MAGIC, no doubt!

Then Sunday, Mark Furlong is feted on the occasion of his going away (he's moving to Germany) at a soiree/tea dance in the basement at The Monster. You know how Mark lives for his DJs and a slew of them are pumping through to keep your feet moving all night, including MICHAEL T, CHAUNCEY D, JUSTIN CARTER, MANDY GRAVES, JOOLS PALMER, RYAN SMITH, GUSTAVO MOTTA and RICH KING. A little later, that whole MAY DAY thing that we've been pimping all week via posts and the banner ad right over here --> (it's at the top) happens with BIMBO JONES and Freemasons at Amnesia NYC (which, for the LIFE of me, I can't place as the former Ruby Falls!? Or rather, I can't place a Ruby Falls? Guess I skipped that segment of Chelsea night life history.).

So...LOTS. Hope to see you at some point! Regardless, enjoy your weekend!

Agree or Disagree: These fifteen restaurants have the most attractive wait staffs.

We're pulling quite a bit of source material from Eater today.

Last week, they posted "The 15 New York Restaurants with the Hottest Servers", and - despite the condescension of the majority of commenters on the post - we deem this information valuable stuff to know (there also seems to be an ugly homophobic campaign happening in the comments with anonymous commenters posting about a Rob/bie(SEYO) and implying he is gay and gets all the hot male waiter trade. Someone buys it, even, and says something about "all the gross homos commenting". Nice.).

Also in the comments, readers write in with some intriguing tips concerning hot bartenders and meat slicers that I'm actually kind of excited to check out.

But per the list, do we agree? Is this list accurate for gays as well as straights? While the Venn diagrams of some gay men's taste and some straight women's certainly overlap, there's often an equally wide possibility for divergence. Thus, is there a separate list for most attractive male servers vs. female (I.e. - "a gay man's list"?)? Lesbians, what about you? Do you have a favorite restaurant staff or staffs?

Give us your thoughts/lists/tips in the comments.

Let's take a trip to Long Island City!

As the weather barely makes a turn from "YOU BITCH!!", field trips become more appealling. This weekend, let's take a trip to Long Island City, home of - among other notable attractions - FYF blogger Rod Townsend! Apparently there's some pretty good food to be had as well, including at M. Wells Diner as reviewed in the New York Times. The chef and front of the house hostess is all "Of Montreal" (not the band, but the locale) and serve up ridiculously decadent deliciousness in giant portions as - ostensibly - only someone who is acquainted with poutine could.

To get there, maybe take advantage of the shuttle buses that transport visitors from the Asia Society (70th and Park Avenue) to the Noguchi Museum for $5 one way. The Socrates Sculpture Park nearby has other large-scale sculptors' work on view.

Noguchi shuttle info via MUG.

How can I help others by going out this week? Let me count the (list of) ways...

Tonight, the Body & Soul DJs get back together on a rare occasion to "Make a Difference for Japan" and raise money to support the Japanese in their clean-up and renewal efforts post-earthquake/tsunami. Benny Soto and Christina Visca are two of the hosts for the night.  At Santos Party House from 6pm - 12am.

Tomorrow night, help support people I love (not that I don't "love" the people of Japan, but it's a different love?) at BASSMENT at Kings Cross (the old Slide) where residents Jools Palmer and Mandy Graves host Bill Pfeiffer and Rich King.

Michael Magnan for Skeletor SavesThursday night, the boys of KAMP - a gay night for South Brooklynites - are collecting sleeping bags for the Japanese people. Clever, no? If you'd rather donate money, they'll be collecting $25 and purchasing lightweight, water-resistant foam mats to send overseas, as well.

Also Thursday night, come see me at Skeletor Saves, a charity auction of He-man and Masters of the Universe inspired artwork benefiting Ali Forney Center that includes art by Helmut Lang, Francois Sagat and an amazing and menacing-looking cuff by Alexis Bittar. I'll be working the door from 8-10pm, but it starts at 6pm when bids are first accepted, so come early and see me as you leave with your NEW ART!

Not everyone is feeling the new Doughnut Plant.

Sexpigeon:

"This is so, so, so slow. Needlessly. The donuts are already made. What Doughnut Plant has innovated is a doofus that operates at one-third the efficiency of an ordinary donut shop worker. There are three such doofuses, and in tandem their inabilities multiply: the guy who labels the donuts does so incorrectly, mucking-up the donut-packer’s slow, methodless packing, which itself is delayed by the register girl’s jittery approach to the ten-key. And that is how is takes thirty minutes to fill seven donut orders."

I'd link to Doughnut Plant but I'm not sure I want them to find this. It's newly opened in the Chelsea Hotel. People photograph donuts there. There's also one on the Lower East Side. There is buzz.

Is Christopher Street becoming New York's Savile Row?

It's a bit of a non-story in New York Magazine's Wendy Goodman's Design Hunting section today (I mean, it's not THAT cute a store?) about the above men's bespoke suit store (Doyle Mueser Bespoke, 19 Christopher Street, (347) 982-4382)  just opened on Christopher Street, but the gentleman on the above right's pose (Werk a foppish a/k/a queeny pose, Mr. I'm-trying-to-resurrect-Beatles-hair-post-Oasis!!) and the fact I used to live on Christopher when it still somewhat evoked its storied homosexual past led to this rumination...

No doubt because of its proximity to now hugely expensive (and largely Marc Jacobs-d'ed) Bleecker street between 7th Avenue South and Hudson Street, Christopher Street is no longer the gay playland (at least not in the same way) it once was. When I lived there, I lived above a sex shop (mostly selling videos) that occupied the space on either side of the building's door. Across the street was another sex shop, as well as a porn magazine shop and, on the corner, a video booth/peep show establishment with a locker room-themed backroom (at least that's what I think it was?). Where this last once stood, a Brooklyn Industries store stands and, between it on the corner of Hudson, and Bleecker, the number of men's clothing stores has bloomed, while the number of men's "entertainment" businesses has been halved, or more.

I don't intend this post to be one of mourning, mind you. While some would argue the fabric of our culture is being destroyed, I am not convinced. On the one hand, such a statement is vastly melodramatic: These are stores that sell pornography...how exactly does closing them particularly and specifically threaten our culture? And on the other, I defy anyone who claims we gays are A) fully encompassed by anything represented on Christopher Street (it represents our history, arguably, but our entire culture? I think not.) and B) unable to tap into our resilience and resourcefulness to ride out far greater threats to our humanity and sexuality.

No, this post is merely a reminder of what once was, as well as an acknowledgement that this is not only the City that never sleeps, but also the City that doesn't stand still.

Now, where's the new strip we're gonna cruise in assless chaps??

Complex has a listing of the fifty most stylish villains.  They cull their list from both fiction and reality with a good range.  Included are Mogatu (from Zoolander), Simon Cowell (reality television prick) and the Joker (Heath Ledger variant).  While some are arguably villain-ish, all are certainly stylish.  As for their number one pick?  I fully agree.

FYF Calendar: It's "The City That Never Sleeps", but the party's usually over by 4 (AM)

So we've been tweaking the FYF Calendar and the "This Weekend" features a bit here on FYF the past couple of weeks and one thing I noticed was that having the events entered with the correct times they ran (e.g.: from 11pm - 4am) meant they showed up again at the beginning of the following day, confusing matters when presented as they are in the Calendar as shown above.

Take the Booty Call Wednesdays listing above: Booty Call runs from 9pm (Pacific Time) to 2am, so - though Booty Call begins on Wednesday, September 15th, it ends Thursday morning, September 16th. Therefore, to clean things up a bit, I'm performing some "magic" behind the scenes so that each event only appears once (unless it's a series). 

Just know that - despite what the "When" for an event on the FYF Calendar says, it should be assumed (unless spelled out in the description for that event) the party ends at 4am when New York City bars close.

Speaking of confusing...I mean something to look forward to...Tai and I will be hosting this weekend's second SPRocket Outdoor Dance/BBQ at an undisclosed location (RSVP here to receive location and directions.) from 2 - 1opm. It kind of serves as the opening salvo in the onslaught that is my birthday month. More than that, though, it's a chance to get freaky, creative, mellow, bold, hynoptized and jazzercised and Lord knows we could all use more of that, New Yorkers.

This weekend... (Friday the 13th Edition)

What's your safe word?

Superstition = cowardice and we'll have NONE of that here at FYF. This Friday the 13th, we've already experienced some of the worst life can dish out, but does that stop us? NO! We're marching on and by marching I mean drinking/dancing/cruising/flirting/hooking until we're as burnt out as a White House aide after 18 months of this administration. There's this whole FYF Calendar thing to give you options for joining "the movement", so check that out, too.

TODAY (Friday) -

Where does humanity find shelter once the Earth is destroyed? Uranus! Escape there (it's closer than you think!) with DJ Jools Palmer for a no-pants dance party following a show surveying the denizens of Uranus. RSVP required for show. Pants-less Dance party to follow. (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, 7pm - 11pm)

Cinephiles and homosex enthusiasts! Light Industry in Downtown Brooklyn is hosting a queer/cinephile zine launch tonight, beginning with a screening of "A Bigger Splash", a quasi-documentary by Jack Hazan about his interactions with David Hockney. The zine is called Little Joe and this is its first issue. Check it out on its website here. (Light Industry, 8pm)

DJs Ryan Smith, Ron Like Hell and Cowboy Mark are back with another Soffitta 70 they've dubbed Acido Bruciare. I don't speak Italian, but it sounds butch! Starts later this time so you don't have to press (either to, or from). (Public Assembly Loft, 11pm)

TOMORROW (Saturday) -

Tonight may require tough choices. On the one hand, there's Horse Meat Disco at Santos (10pm)... On the other, the anniversary party of Cheryl at The Bell House (11pm).  Both will be amazing and unmissable, but - hopefully - one CAN do both??? The question still to be answered (and probably on the fly?)...when to leave one to go to the other?!

Plus, there's these additional temptations: The Leo Bash with DJs Jeff Jackson and Disco Connie (playing post-punk. I didn't know you had it in you, Connie! Waaait...) at Nowhere (10pm) for all you Leos out there; and XXX Men's Party at Rockbar NYC (11pm) with Torez (and friends) and vats of lube (uh...I don't really need to flesh that one out, further...do I?).

SUNDAY -

XXX seems to be the magic...er...number(?) this weekend, as today's Sea Tea Cruise is Daniel Nardicio's XXX Birthday. Expect go-gos and all the smut your know him for, plus food and drinks...on a boat! (Pier 40, Boards at 6pm...Sails at 7:30pm, Returns at 10pm)

This retired show pony still tries to get out in the spotlight on occasion and tonight is one of those... SPANK and Honey Dijon team up to bring you SPANK Disco with Tai Chi and I (as well as One-Half Nelson and Gayletter) as hosts! (On a budget? Belvedere open bar 9pm - 10pm!) (Hiro Ballroom, 9pm - 12am)

Being that it's the Lord's Day, Go-Go Harder, The Daisy Spurs, Josh Sparber and friends provide Sanctuary over at Woody's with - clearly - go-gos to whom you may offer service and your donations, plenty of "saints" with which to commune, and much drink with which to slake your thirst for carnality. Or something. (10pm)

Down on Varick Street, Greenhouse provides the perfect environment for hothouse exotics like yourselves to grow. Tonight - if you didn't catch them last night - Horse Meat Disco sow their unique and addictive seeds of love/disco downstairs in the Vandam dungeon. (10pm)

Summer's beginning to wane, so...Enjoy!

This weekend...

This could be you. If not, the following might occupy you...

Quality (of events...I make no promises re the quality of the text), not quantity, is the name of this week's "This weekend". As ever, check the FYF Calendar for more options/info.

TODAY (Friday) -

On the STRAIGHT-PIMPIN' IT ELECTRO/FRENCH DISCO STYLE AT WEBSTER HALL tip...

• GRUM and Penguin Prison appearing at the same party! GBH's Girls & Boys hosts two of my favorites right now. $1 before midnight with RSVP on Going.com (link above). If you haven't, get into GRUM! (Webster Hall, 10pm)

On the DOWN-N-DIRTY DON'T MIND AN ANONYMOUS GROPE AND NEITHER DOES THE DANCER tip...

• Black Eddie and Mr. Black are proud to present go-go slab Jase Woodruff for some rough leather/cigar lovin' bar top action. Show Jase how you handle a club. (11pm, Le Cock)

On the BIG BOY "WE LIKE 'EM BEEFY!!' DIRTY JERZEY tip...

• Jonny Mack kicks off a bi-weekly (every 2nd and 4th Friday) man-meat buffet in Hoboken that brings the HEAT! (The Cage, 10pm)

On the CUTE SOUND, CUTE CROWD, CUTE CUTE! tip...

• Sean B., Deputy, Timmy and Ryan Smith are mellow, manly '70s disco all night at Xanadude (Public Assembly Loft, 10pm)

This weekend...(WHOA!) - Memorial Day Edition, Part 2

  

So, here's the deal (from yesterday): First weekend with truly Summer temperatures, Fleet Week (all the seamen!) and Memorial Day, i.e. - Monday off? This weekend's crazy.

Let's get (back) into it, then... 

Tonight (Friday): 

Recurring (Weekly/Bi-Weekly/Even Monthly) - 

Friday nights at Woody's with Gant Johnson. Surfer theme. Wear your board shorts! (1opm, Woody's)

Sugar Daddy happens bi-weekly now, but this one's extra special as it's Gustavo's birthday! "Sound like Chewbacca" contest and strip beer games!  (10pm, Rush)

Unisexi is now weekly and this week's is all about the 90s. House of Stank (W. Jeremy and Christy Love) guest along with Michael Magnan. (10pm, Le Royale)

One-Offs/Special Events -

SPANK Live! is tonight at Littlefield with SPANK DJs Sean B. and Will and guest DJ Nita Aviance, with performances by Street Hero, Best Mate (feat. Heather Liteer and Farrad), enSubtitles (pictured above), Hunt & Gather, Yozmit, Air Kiss on Mars, Xavier and The Swimming Pools.  Linda Simpson MCs. Art installation by Jeffrey Ralston. Shows start at 10:30pm so it's an early event, kids! There're discounted tickets ($9) available until 4:30pm here. They'll be $12 at the door. Check out the roster of performers via this 11 track CD download and expect a DAMN good time...these kids know how to put an event together! (10pm)

Despite a near dearth of positive reviews (at least from friends who've visited), the Whitney Biennial2010 closes this weekend with a piece by artist Michael Asher which entails the museum being open 24 hours a day from Wednesday the 26th until Friday the 28th at 11:59pm.  It's pay what you will for entry from 11pm to 9am tonight/tomorrow morning and again from 6pm to 11:59pm tomorrow night. (Now 'til 11:59pm Friday, May 28th, Whitney Museum)

Matthew Barney's entire Cremaster cycle (5 films) is playing repeatedly until June 3rd (just extended!?) at IFC Center. Trippy stuff, to be sure.  FYF, the cremaster is the muscle that raises and lowers the testicles.  If you have to understand more to enjoy the films, visit the Cremaster Fanatic site for film-by-film explanations.  Each film is remarkable in its own right, but, for Cremaster 3,  Mr. Barney somehow convinced the management/owners of the Chrysler Building to allow him to shoot on location, including scenes involving five 1967 Chrysler Crown Imperials bashing a single 1938 Chrysler Imperial New Yorker to bits in the landmarked Art-Deco lobby. Special $30 Cycle Pass covers you for the entire 5-film cycle. (Various times until Thursday, June 3rd, IFC Center)

As always, check the FYF calendar for full details.

This weekend...(WHOA!) - Memorial Day Edition

   

We gotta take this day-by-day, kids.  It IS a lot, after all: First weekend with truly Summer temperatures, Fleet Week (all the seamen!) and Memorial Day, i.e. - Monday off? It's a safe bet at least half your friends/acquaintances/neighbors/fuckbuddies/corner deli men are hosting a party this weekend.

Let's get into it, then... 

Tonight (Thursday): 

Recurring (Weekly/Bi-Weekly/Even Monthly) - 

Headz Will Roll with hosts Ladyfag and Roxy Cottontail and cameraman, Jason (Father Figure) Rodgers. Outdoor rooftop garden for the Summer! (1opm, Bar 13)

Josh Woods Productions' Fox at The Park with hosts Chuck Attix and Kris Haigh and guest DJ Josh Sparber. Jared Needle is in there somewhere -- with Josh W. actually, so he must be producing, too? I'm not sure who's who and what's what exactly, so my apologies if I screwed that up. (10pm, The Park)

2 for 1 drinks at both these parties, albeit different hours. Check the FYF calendar for full details.

One-Offs/Special Events - 

Despite a near dearth of positive reviews (at least from friends who've visited), the Whitney Biennial2010 closes this weekend with a piece by artist Michael Asher which entails the museum being open 24 hours a day from Wednesday the 26th until Friday the 28th at 11:59pm.  It's pay what you will for entry from 11pm to 9am tonight/tomorrow morning and again from 6pm to 11:59pm tomorrow night. (Now 'til 11:59pm Friday, May 28th, Whitney Museum)

Matthew Barney's entire Cremaster cycle (5 films) is playing repeatedly until June 3rd (just extended!?) at IFC Center. Trippy stuff, to be sure.  FYF, the cremaster is the muscle that raises and lowers the testicles.  If you have to understand more to enjoy the films, visit the Cremaster Fanatic site for film-by-film explanations.  Each film is remarkable in its own right, but, for Cremaster 3,  Mr. Barney somehow convinced the management/owners of the Chrysler Building to allow him to shoot on location, including scenes involving five 1967 Chrysler Crown Imperials bashing a single 1938 Chrysler Imperial New Yorker to bits in the landmarked Art-Deco lobby. Special $30 Cycle Pass covers you for the entire 5-film cycle. (Various times until Thursday, June 3rd, IFC Center)

This weekend...

 

Tonight (Thursday):

It's  a booty-fest at Headz Will Roll tonight after last week's crazed late-night Spank Rock appearance. I can personally attest: the crowd is pleasing! Ladyfag and Roxy Cottontail host while Jason plays pa-pa-pa-paparazzi(1opm, Bar 13)

After last week's premier during Urban Bear Weekend, Behr, the paint themed(?) bear party from Robert Valin, holes up in the basement at Elevate for week two. (10pm)

Tomorrow night (Friday):

The Bunker is a Friday night party at Public Assembly that's held in high esteem among clubbers/dancers/DJs already. This Friday, they inaugurate a quarterly residency series where they'll host the residents of Berghain and Panorama Bar, two Berlin clubs (who just happen to be under the same roof) that - according to general consensus - throw some of the best parties, playing the best music, in the world right now.  (10Pm)

The kids who put on Unisexi love a theme (as do I!) and this week's is Batty Bwoy with Michael Magnan and DJ Will Automagic joining residents Jools Palmer and Sugartitz behind the decks, and a special performance by Jamaican-born Lawrence Graham Brown.  Bring your best Dancehall/Dutty Wine moves and your best ass! (10pm, Le Royale)

Bi-weekly, bi-curious (?) but not bi-polar, Snaxx is back and waiting for you in the dark. (10pm, Westside Tavern)

   

So many things to love here... 

Look! It's FYF (or Duane) fave Ben Pamies in the ad! Lady's talking about shoes! Dina's reading! Jake loves porn!

The guys over at AntiTwink are doin' it and doin' it and doin' it well. This feature, "Twitter-Pated: Scene Tweets" is spot on, for example. And, like us, they're not really haters: they're actually twinks...just not that type of twink.

This weekend (Too much to fit in!*)...

 

---Tonight (Friday):

New photographic works by Jeremy Kost and others at Winkleman Gallery through June 12. (Opening tonight, 6-8pm)

Snaxx hosts a birthday party for DJ Paul Ferrer (remember?). (Westside Tavern @ 10pm)

Unisexi's been doing it for a year already (Le Royale @ 10pm), while Skittles is giving High School and going out with a (New Wave) Prom. (The Outpost @ 10pm)

Josh Sparber and Jiggly Caliente turn (white?) Sugarland out (Sugarland @ 10pm), while Mark Louque (really) guest DJs downstairs at Black Cock (The Cock @ 11pm).

---Tomorrow night (Saturday):

Kenny Kenny's solo photography show, 'Bon Vivant in New York', opens at Collective Gallery (View a small selection of photographs from the show after the jump.) (Opening is from 6pm - 8pm at the Gallery), and  Family Function hosts the after party. (Woody's @ 10pm)

Meanwhile, across town, Crisis celebrates Vandam door goddess Cynthia Powell's birthday with nightlife legends Johnny Dynell and Leee Black Childers guest djing. The Legends and Nightlife Gods/Goddesses theme also ties in to Crisis' role as  supporter of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center where a special Studio 54 anniversary edition of Dance 208 takes place just prior to Crisis.

Last but not least, San Francisco art collective HomoChic makes their debut visit to New York to team up with SPANK for Interlace NYC, part of Earl Dax' week long Queer Conscience happening. (The Loft @ 10pm) 

They have a (truly) lovely video flyer here. More info on HomoChic here, and on Queer Conscience here.  This is heady stuff, kids...our CPR (Civilization Progress Report) is boosted by their CPR (Center for Performance Research).

---Sunday night:

Josh Woods presents Rooftop Bares! at Hudson Terrace. FYF - this is affiliated with Broadway Bares and not next weekend's Urban Bear Weekend. Josh's summer Sunday shindig at Hudson Terrace, Rooftop, begins May 23rd. (Hudson Terrace @ 6pm)

* -- I lied...I WAS able to fit it all in.

Note: Check out the FYF calendar for more information/events.

Hierarchy - The Bars of the East Village (Redux)

15. The Pyramid Club (Today)

14. The Phoenix

13. Woody's

12. Boiler Room

11. Urge

10. The Cock (2nd Ave.)

This weekend (continued some more)...

  

Tonight: Dan Halm is part of two group shows for May Day...one in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn. The one in Brooklyn (no shade, Bronx! Just focusin' on the one I might get to, is all!) is called Spring Fever and goes 'til 2am (Shangri-La - tonight is also this spot's Grand Opening - @ 8pm).

The Crisis crew erects your maypole as they welcome W. Jeremy and Paul Ferrer upstairs in the Panic Room, while Xris Smack, Ricardo Studmuffin and Justin Deville join Michael T. down in the Bombshelter. (Elevate @ 10pm)

Ladyfag and Jason the Black Teenwolf treat you like family at Family Function, particularly if you'd make a good Daddy or Sister... Sean B. mans the decks. (Woody's @ 10pm)

Field Report - Boxers opening party in Chelsea

Last night I finally met our RuPoet, Ricky Marson at the opening party for Boxers in Chelsea.  This afternoon we compared notes over Google Chat: 

ROD:  Oh, so, hi RICKY!

RICKY:  well, hello

ROD:  So we went to Boxers last night.

RICKY:  Indeed.

RICKY:  I enjoyed the free drinks, though getting to the bar was more of a sport than anything on the TV screens.

ROD:  True that.  And it was nice to get to go to the corner of Pennsylvania and Avenue K.  As in, like, I felt like I was in Washington DC.

ROD:  Or Baltimore

RICKY:  Agreed.

RICKY:  It always surprises me how many gay men there are in this city that I don't know.

ROD:  And how many straight women they bring along for some free drinks and pizza.

RICKY:  Yes, a lot of straight women.

RICKY:  I don't think it exemplified what a typical night is going to be like there.

ROD:  No, I think a typical night there will be, sadly ... quiet.

ROD:  Let’s talk specifics

RICKY:  OK.

ROD:  PIZZA!